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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This American heritage course will focus each year upon a particular topic concerning one or more of the United States' major ethnic groups - African Americans, Asian Americans,Native Americans, Latinos, Jewish Americans. The course will allow students to observe the diversity of American cultural and aesthetic experiences as well as the problem of identity within the larger American culture and literary establishment. Recommended for majors planning graduate coursework.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours See course description under English.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This participation course enables students to develop techniques for creating their own works in a variety of genres - dramatic monologue, poetry, fiction. Students learn about their relationship with language by exploring the imagination, by experimenting with the written word, and by being exposed to the world of practicing writers. Students actively engage in generating ideas, sharing drafts, offering critiques, and revising and assessing their own works, all of which encourage them to become lifelong patrons of the arts.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course in world community (including Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western European traditions) surveys some of the world's greatest literature in the genres of epic, drama, lyric poetry, wisdom literature, satire, and prose from earliest times to about 1660. Through reading, discussion, writing, and research, students will grow to understand differences among cultures that affect literary themes and practices and, ultimately, our communication with people across the world. Possible works - Analects of Confucius, The Tale of Genji, selections from The Arabian Nights, Dante's Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Don Quixote.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course in world community (including Asian, European, Middle Eastern, African, South American, British, and American traditions) surveys some of the world's greatest literature beginning with the modern era, 1660 through the present day. The students will grow in their understanding of differences among cultures that affect themes, artistic tastes, literary practices and, ultimately, our communication with people across the world. Possible authors - Goethe, Basho, Achebe, Melville, Roy.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This participation course engages students in the art of poetry through reading, writing, and discussion, preparing them to become lifelong patrons of the arts. Special emphasis is placed on the student's own involvement in the creative process and on particular demands of the genre - its techniques, forms, traditions, etc. Through poesis, or "making," students discovethe power of the word in shaping reality.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours See course description under English.
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3.00 Credits
See course description under English.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course engages the student in intensive study of readings in translation from the masterpieces of Russian literature according to various topical approaches. Such topics might include the study of the Russian short story, the emergence of the Russian novel, Soviet literature, the major works of Dostoevsky or Tolstoy, the theme of St. Petersburg in Russian literature, or the impact of the fall of Communism on the Russian literary imagination.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours This course surveys representative works from the early British period, extending from Anglo- Saxon writings to works composed around 1789, including authors of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and 18th Century. Students will study the historical context that surrounds these works, the literary movements and fashions that authors participated in or responded to, and a selection of recent criticism about some of the major authors and movements. Possible works include Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queen, Paradise Lost, Rasselas, and an 18th century novel such as Evelina and Tom Jones.
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